Peter Coyote
Sign in to saveAmerican actor, voice artist, director, activist and narrator
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1941-10-10
- Works
- 19
Top works
- The Four Agreements
- Soldiers of Conscience
- Rome
- Deadly Drifter
- Dr. Dolittle
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. Coyote was one of the founders of…
Known for
- O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder — Self2025
- Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters — Narrator (voice)2025
- The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today — Narrator2025
- Black Mountain Blues2025
- The American Revolution — Narrator (voice)2025
- Bad Faith — Narrator (voice)2024
- The Program — Narrator (voice)2024
- Good Men — Self2024
- Against All Enemies — Narrator2023
- Fields of Gold — Narrator2023
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 43
- Total plays
- 461
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,878x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,188x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,716x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,302x
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Key facts
- Born
- Robert Peter Cohon , ( 1941-10-10 ) October 10, 1941 (age 84) , New York City, U.S.
- Education
- Grinnell College ( BA )
- Occupations
- Actor director screenwriter author narrator
- Years active
- 1967–present
- Spouses
- Marilyn McCann ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1998 ) Stefanie Pleet ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1998 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2015 )
- Website
- petercoyote.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 10 October 1941
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Official website
- petercoyote.com
Article
Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator of films, theater, television, and audiobooks. He is known for his appearances in films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Bitter Moon (1992), Kika (1993), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002), and Femme Fatale (2002).
His voice work includes his narration for the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century (1992), winning an Emmy. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on Ken Burns's documentary miniseries The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
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